Rebecca Diamond (economist)
Rebecca Diamond is Class of 1988 Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business[1] and an associate editor of Econometrica and American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Her research areas include urban economics and labor economics.
Rebecca Diamond | |
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Alma mater | Yale College Harvard University |
Awards | Elaine Bennett Research Prize, 2022 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics |
Institutions | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Doctoral advisors | Lawrence F. Katz, Edward Glaeser, Ariel Pakes |
Website | https://www.rebecca-diamond.com/ |
In 2022, she was awarded the Elaine Bennett Research Prize.[2]
Biography
Diamond is the daughter of Elizabeth Cammack Diamond and Douglas Diamond, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[3][4]
She graduated from Yale University in 2007 with a BS in Physics and Economics & Mathematics, worked for a year as an analyst for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and then began graduate study at Harvard University. She earned an MA in Economics in 2011 and a PhD in Economics in 2013, and has been at Stanford University since then.[1]
Research
Diamond's research focuses on topics in housing and inequality, including gender gaps in gig work, affordable housing development, and the geography of consumption inequality.[5] Her work combines theoretical modeling with empirical analysis using new datasets, and often involves the connections between housing markets and labor markets.[2] In work receiving media coverage, she studied a rent control policy implemented in San Francisco in 1994, finding that this policy reduced the amount of rental housing eligible for the policy as landlords sold rent-controlled apartments for condominium-conversions and replaced rent-controlled apartments with new buildings not covered by the policy.[6][7][8]
Selected works
- Diamond, Rebecca. "The determinants and welfare implications of US workers' diverging location choices by skill: 1980-2000." American Economic Review 106, no. 3 (2016): 479-524.
- Allcott, Hunt, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, and Molly Schnell. "Food deserts and the causes of nutritional inequality." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134, no. 4 (2019): 1793-1844.
- Cook, Cody, Rebecca Diamond, Jonathan V. Hall, John A. List, and Paul Oyer. "The gender earnings gap in the gig economy: Evidence from over a million rideshare drivers." The Review of Economic Studies 88, no. 5 (2021): 2210-2238.
- Diamond, Rebecca, Tim McQuade, and Franklin Qian. "The effects of rent control expansion on tenants, landlords, and inequality: Evidence from San Francisco." American Economic Review 109, no. 9 (2019): 3365-94.
- Diamond, Rebecca, and Tim McQuade. "Who wants affordable housing in their backyard? An equilibrium analysis of low-income property development." Journal of Political Economy 127, no. 3 (2019): 1063-1117.
References
- "Rebecca Diamond". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
- "Rebecca Diamond Recipient of the 2022 Elaine Bennett Research Prize". American Economic Association. Retrieved October 22, 2022.
- List, John A (July 2020). "NON EST DISPUTANDUM DE GENERALIZABILITY? A GLIMPSE INTO THE EXTERNAL VALIDITY TRIAL" (PDF). NBER Working Paper Series (27535): 30.
- "Douglas Diamond wins Nobel Prize for research on banks and financial crises | University of Chicago News". news.uchicago.edu. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- Saito, Shinya (February 3, 2021). "Rebecca Diamond". UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
- "The Evidence Against Rent Control". NPR.org. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
- Brinklow, Adam (November 3, 2017). "Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco". Curbed SF. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
- Diamond, Rebecca (October 18, 2018). "What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control?". Brookings. Retrieved October 26, 2022.